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STREET CORNER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The intersection of two streets

Example:

standing on the corner watching all the girls go by

Synonyms:

corner; street corner; turning point

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("street corner" is a kind of...):

carrefour; crossing; crossroad; crossway; intersection (a junction where one street or road crosses another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "street corner"):

blind corner (a street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving)

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